At one point it was going to be that cape town would be the 1st city in the worlds run out of water. We had a one in 400 year drop off to a very rare occurrence so this drought came in an unexpected way and we were not prepared for it certainly not its extremity. Every time the worse the carp authority or the will get with it whether or not committees go to raise the flag as it is a problem and nestle please help National Kind with some excuse the. Water has been a weapon and without any question it got between the Ruling African National congress and the Democratic Alliance. We have to take Emergency Action and that action included to figure this out for which patients but most especially the morning managers reducing the lot of. The immediate is no work of the children going to thing but money we must make a way you must always make a way you can tell when the government put the word or forward to suck it with the widow who wants to see we you can find with the. The one taking. Cape town mitchells plane is one of the many impoverished townships around the south african city its plagued by high unemployment and crime but in the past few years the most urgent issue has been the water shortage. And then. In every saturday must judical and her youngest daughter go from door to door selling their baked goods to hear the concerns of their neighbors and customers this is one of the better off variants. Do. You mean. You know that. Really just a small houses have Running Water and recently installed water meters a lot of it or. Can you see this is the new a new order device now the older ones he plays with this new when they dont think theres no unique inches on your property before they put it in they just put it in. Or not they dont know what they want to do thats about the things thats why us that it does make them. Orderly devices doesnt work it doesnt work because now there we have this what the need is installed you know it is always problems with the water always problem. And i dont think its fair. That given. The persistent drought over the past several years created panic. The residents of Mitchells Plain feared the city authorities would turn off their taps 1st im. With you. Because it is the same amount of work that they give out people compared to the other one t. D. s theyve got pools theyve got servants theyve got a huge homes that needs to be marked windows me to be clean they go jogging and then they need to come shower computor that i dont believe that i think that we are pulling at the end of this little. According to the United Nations around 4000000000 people worldwide experienced severe water scarcity. Cape town look to be the 1st major city to run out of water due to Climate Change water levels in the reservoirs that supply 99 percent of the areas water sank after the drought began in 2015. First world is no doubt that we are in a climate disrupting period and these last 3 and a half years of below average well below average rainfall suggests that theres something much more dramatic happening to our weather systems then anywhere near the norm and weve got to look to Climate Change as one of those factors that is driving that with the variability. Facing a looming humanitarian disaster city officials scramble to limit the damage. And begin skinny we know it didnt of rain and the new dam levels just started dropping. And you almost feel hopeless now you city peaked at many times i cannot allow a well. After what. The 4000000 residents were acutely threatened there were fears of impending epidemics of riots and the economic breakdown of the region as water levels continue to sink local authorities felt they had to act. When we asked the National Government to the communique tended to sauce the area and when they were winning snow when doing it i used my local policy as the mayor to declare. That. For years hydrology experts had warned of the cape town urgently needed to find backup water reserves but now it was too late the citys Crisis Management team decided it would have to turn off the taps. And so in a period of about a year. Now i dont think that we have ever implemented as many new. Restrictions and often. Actions because in my period of of being within this. Weve had to just heighten the restrictions in response to the dropping of dan navels. Residents were restricted to 50 liters of water per day in europe by comparison people use an average of 30 leaders a day just to flush the toilet in cape town people without access to enough water to line up at public tap stations. For some enterprising locals the crisis was a Business Opportunity the socalled printers offer a water delivery to households. This was a dry run for daisy the ominous day when the city would turn off the municipal taps residents without personal access to water through wells or bore holes would get their daily allotments like this. Never did i think that one day of my a good day that i have to try to walk again the. Critics say that if officials had taken the threat of Climate Change seriously and found new water sources early on cape town Swimming Pools would not be empty but imposing strict limits was not enough the city took more drastic measures and published household usage online on a city water map. The lighter green dots indicate higher usage the city also set up a call center where citizens can report restriction offenses. Naming and shaming types of. Things with. And we believe that at that point in time that that is probably the most impactful way. Bring attention to the need that Everyone Needs to reduce their consumption then we have insights to how much using. The fear of public scrutiny had an effect on water usage in capetown dropped from 1200000000. 00 to just 500000000 liters per day. Homes in durban ville an affluent and mainly white suburb of cape town are also listed people here dont want to be exposed as water wasters at least not. To. Stop. The 2nd shout clear. To keep their municipal water usage down the trumpet family collects the runoff from the shower. Using brace for and. Different. New clean Drinking Water to. The wealthy can afford to buy bottled Drinking Water which helps them stay under the published 50 leader limit. So basically this is a popular musharraf has become the Storage Space for i want our mission we have about 200. 00 bottles of water which is what use for cooking and drinking. The worst part of. Athletics to get all this wealth to come from from the grassroots to yeah but it is its not about quite a bit already. If you dont have to acknowledge the family. Just to become more aware of exactly how much water we are actually using. Cooking now we use the form of water drinking we use bottled water. You know when we pour the Water Bottles for the kids to take to school we fall to. Cape town as a relatively wealthy city a popular Tourist Destination which produces nearly 10 percent of south africas g. D. P. Concerns are growing that if the city cant guarantee its water supply the tourists will stay away and investors will leave putting a damper on the flourishing economy. And that would kill the jobs that are desperately needed especially in the townships. Here around 70 percent of people are unemployed with no social welfare support. And. Must doriss friend who feed on the single mother getting by with children is hard enough and recently her problems have been compounded by excessive water bills. This is stuff i walked up all that is to be 7500. 0. 93 so i dont understand why is it that people are the scene of the. And that ball that they are giving us its way too high for all people to play and its not only bible theres a lot of other people has got this use for. Paradoxically the higher bills are due in part to keep tony and efforts to save water reduced usage meant reduced revenues a shortfall of the equivalent of hundreds of millions of euros so the city imposed higher punitive tariffs. Only control you have usually private people very for you know squeezing private people to use listen but because you doing that now you are even you stream through the city suddenly suddenly is drastically reduced and therefore you have to say well we force you decide when its good to save but our revenues are not destroyed so we have to live in a special drop check so we are punishing you for saving. In the townships the higher water bills are often due to leaks in the aging pipe systems. This is a Water Management device thats been leaking this peoples water has been the day for months now and the sit down didnt even come up before so this is all water thats been that i mean away as you can see thats from that i mean when. So thats what the management device it weighs more water than what its safe for and if theres so what major crisis with water then why dont the city have kept on time out to fix this. Because residents like my feet are cant pay their bills the city reprogrammed the water meters to cap supply of 350 liters per day but this does not take into account the fact that sometimes there are more than 10 People Living in a single household. The other day my son also before me twice in the world in fact. Couldnt explain to me why because my water was coughing and i have to ask my neighbor to. But me some water so that i came to rethink. And the city devised a further step to throttle water use asking people to pay for water in advance. Good. People is going to die people are going to fight a war and at that one they dont come to me that. I dont know whether that because i will in the. Right. How can people in communities fight a war with them when its your constitutional that our oh. My but they saved this scene from a running out of war definitely. The people of. By change their relationship and using them on something that is how we survive. But people in cape town say theyre tired of struggling and paying for the politicians mistakes. That. We have but its all of us. I no longer use my dishwasher. And i wear my clothes a lot longer. So i dont change my clothes as often i must be honest you know im im tired of the city and kept on pushing the men for almost 50 to life and this being the new normal i dont want to live the way i am now carrying buckets. The owner of the salon ceases likelihood and that of his 50 employees under threat. Of businesses everything to me i dont have a fallback didnt have it. Is a plan b. Running out of water would spiritually mean that we would have to shut shop so its not a question to get attention were wonderful city were down to. 60 leaders per person per day and we can be proud of it without realizing what thats done to business i can tell you of companies right now theyre all busy relocating listen if this is the future of the city we can all do business too. Its been 25 years since the election of Nelson Mandela and his African National congress the a. N. C. Party and apartheid a new era began in south africa with a new constitution that guarantees citizens the right to sufficient water and places the responsibility for realizing that right in the hands of the state some people believe that its contributed to cape towns water crisis. 106 may have played a role but i think the real problem was that National Treasury said to the department of Water Affairs youre not getting much. And they didnt have the money because theres a lot of us have been squandered. The entire world has supported black Economic Empowerment in south africa and yes it is necessary to find a risk that you shouldnt for this sins of the past but what people also have to recognize is that like a demonic empowerment has just become a feast to cover corruption it sounds moral it sounds good people dont want to be against it but it really is just a number 11 high and which a lot of corruption is here. Cape town and the western Cape Province are controlled by the Democratic Alliance or da party while the National Government is in the hands of the a. N. C. For years the da and the women who occupied top posts in cape town were an irritant to president jacob zuma who stepped down in the face of corruption allegations in 2018. The information that i have is that in 20. 2013 there was a meeting held and that meeting was held in the bottom and i have a source in that meeting a good many ancient of this meeting and in that meeting the discussion watch. How do we do with helen zille or how do we deal with with with little because patricia below was blowing the whistle on the arms deal and helen zille or had just been been appointed the premier and she was making a huge noise about the sit back but i age so i depute of time in the bottom when rules had a decision was made to simply witness water and they decided at that point in time that they going to turn water into a tour in india to whip and to teach them to teach they did the d. N. A. Listen to particularly those 22 women. And one of the political games at the cost of ordinary citizens after so much resignation the cabinet was reshuffled. The new minister of water and sanitation facing the media. What do you tell people who blame the National Government for the crisis in cape town. No douglas formalistic you know if theres a formalistic approach that sort of speaks to what im just it is situational there were. No no no one is a bit of this that runs national. Thats where your problem arises no no no thats exactly what we must remember. This side of the mentality in terms of this is we would one government with true serious as one government response. Whether the new National Government will solve cape towns problems has yet to be seen the city has had to take on the task of finding new sources of water something which ought to be financed by the National Government. So the 3 temperately sanitation pond so basically complete weve got to be providing water into the system or working on a way to reuse the city and that will. See a yield being put into the system towards the end of this financial the new Financial Year and the drilling into aquifers are continuing and already generating some water. These new investments and Water Management have to be paid for under zuma corrupt officials plundered state coffers now keep tony and have to foot the bill but they feel they arent being given a say in policy making. Ajay government i think but at the local level and the prevention it will be clear this is a crisis in strongly pushed for. This to become a disaster. Under the conditions of a disaster the normal pro se says of checks and balances out he moved so this is but as a patient in these Decision Making is removed so that now where you would have been an application for desalination plants for example would go through certain checks and balances we citizens in your part of the Decision Making process and comment and and to have it they say this because of the drought because they indicated disaster those rights are taking away. The 3 small desalination plants were set up hastily for a lot of money critics say the use of huge amounts of energy but only provide 2 percent of daily water demand. Climate changes altering global rainfall patterns higher latitudes in the tropics are expected to get wet or moderate latitudes and already eric regions will get drier cape towns municipal officials have recognised that surface water will no longer be sufficient for the growing city. Now theyre asking scientists whose warnings went unheeded for years to come up with quick solutions. And minute very short notice we got a message that the mayor is coming to visit us a grilling so i said she would really like to see drilling in frequently she would like to see water coming out of the ground at that stage we had no conflict with her lips in place but we had heard that when the fire wants to take a picture of something youll make it happen so we have to ask you a Drilling Company to take a little bit of risk if i could really rig up because they worked through that phone call before all and by the fall of the may arrive we took a picture and there was water coming out of the ground. To messy from known as the Table Mountain group has a number of manmade reservoirs but these dams are just a drop in the bucket. Hundreds of meters down below the masses of gray sandstone billions of cubic meters of Crystal Clear water and natural groundwater aquifers these fossil water sources are being explored as a possible solution to cape towns Drinking Water problems. The borehole here is already 850 meters deep and theres still no trace of groundwater. But ya know thats a no the earth can you know you know. Like i said earlier if you dont get water in the ball your heads are not talking a lot so. This is like a seed exploration so you learn when you kill an exploration anything any you only find out whats on the ground when you drill. The problem is that the deep groundwater is not replenished rapidly if too much is taken out the depleted water table will sink with potentially serious consequences for plant and animal life. Any activity like this isnt in fact i think we have to be honest about that but its grab water. If you are developing a water resource theres going to be an impact but quite clearly we dont have a choice in terms of building resilience all the things of. Ground is an important source of art and green is a crude in terms of its size. Cape town is not alone with these problems half of the earths population is already grappling with water shortages cities from sao paulo to los angeles make headlines when they nearly run out of water and the